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    Marble bust of Pericles in a Corinthian helmet, inscribed ΠΕΡΙΚΛΗΣ ΞΑΝΘΙΠΠΟΥ ΑΘΗΝΑΙΟΣ

    Pericles, Son of Xanthippus, of Cholargos: His Life, Politics and Image in the Ancient Sources

    Solon of Athens seated in a mountain landscape in a red himation, holding a scroll and a stylus, in a painting by Blondel

    Solon of Athens: The Life of the Lawgiver between History and Tradition

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    Romulus and Remus: Fratricide on the Palatine and the Founding of Rome

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    Saint Christopher by Theophanes wading through a river, with Christ on his left shoulder and a leafy staff in his right hand

    Theophanes Strelitzas Bathas: Saint Christopher at the Anapafsas Monastery

    Full-length Saint James the Persian with a cross, domed headdress and reddish-brown mantle, in a fresco by Theophanes.

    Theophanes Strelitzas Bathas: Saint James the Persian

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    The Virgin of Hagia Sophia, Thessaloniki

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    Anaxagoras of Clazomenae as an old man with bare torso, raised arm and dividers above a celestial globe, beneath a cloudy sky

    Anaxagoras of Clazomenae: The Philosopher of Mind in Ribera and Langetti

    Pair of scrolls by Kōno Bairei: the Buddha's parinirvana on the left, Uzume dancing before Amaterasu's cave on the right.

    Amaterasu and the Heavenly Rock Cave: The Myth of the Sun’s Return

    Venus embraces the seated Adonis beneath a tree, with Cupid at lower left and a hunting dog on the right.

    Hans von Aachen: Venus and Adonis

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    Alonissos: The Natural Beauty and Settlements of a Verdant Island

    Colourful houses of Parga rising above the waterfront, with café umbrellas and the rock armour lining the shore.

    Parga: Landscape and History to Its Union with Greece in 1913

    Stone-paved lane between stone buildings, with an arched opening on the left and a timber shelter beside a large deciduous tree on the right.

    Mastorochoria: Pyrsogianni, Vourbiani, Gorgopotamos and Plikati

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    The Zygies of Naoussa: Zournas, Daouli and Patinades in the Genitsaroi and Boules

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    Sousta and Mantinades in Olympos, Karpathos: The Order of the Seated Glenti

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    The Kourbani of Agia Paraskevi on Lesbos: Saint Charalampos, Kiskek and the Riders

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    Cylinder seal impression showing two heroes seizing and striking a winged, human-headed bull.

    The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Flower of Immortality: Humankind’s Defeat by Time

    Höðr drives a long red weapon through Baldr as Loki leans close to his ear, in an Icelandic manuscript illustration of 1760.

    The Death of Baldr and the Mistletoe: Loki’s Treachery and the Portent of Ragnarök

    Pair of scrolls by Kōno Bairei: the Buddha's parinirvana on the left, Uzume dancing before Amaterasu's cave on the right.

    Amaterasu and the Heavenly Rock Cave: The Myth of the Sun’s Return

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    Marble bust of Pericles in a Corinthian helmet, inscribed ΠΕΡΙΚΛΗΣ ΞΑΝΘΙΠΠΟΥ ΑΘΗΝΑΙΟΣ

    Pericles, Son of Xanthippus, of Cholargos: His Life, Politics and Image in the Ancient Sources

    Solon of Athens seated in a mountain landscape in a red himation, holding a scroll and a stylus, in a painting by Blondel

    Solon of Athens: The Life of the Lawgiver between History and Tradition

    Marble head of a bald, bearded man attributed to the historian Herodotus, on a pedestal in the Stoa of Attalos, Athens

    Herodotus: the historian from Halicarnassus and his inquiry into the Persian Wars

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Jusepe de Ribera

Anaxagoras of Clazomenae as an old man with bare torso, raised arm and dividers above a celestial globe, beneath a cloudy sky
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Anaxagoras of Clazomenae: The Philosopher of Mind in Ribera and Langetti

Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, a friend of Pericles, explained eclipses, was tried for impiety and placed Mind at the origin of cosmic motion. His thought is read here alongside two seventeenth-century portraits, by Jusepe de Ribera and by Langetti.
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Men in flat caps with white sashes and wooden crooks beside young female dancers wearing red shawls over their shoulders and white aprons.

The Babougera of Kali Vrysi: Goat Masqueraders of the Twelve Days and the Magic of the Bells

White façade of the Church of Saint Marina on Sifnos, with its bell gable and an entrance decorated with palm fronds.

Agia Marina, Sifnos: the settlement and its church at Kamares

Venus embraces the seated Adonis beneath a tree, with Cupid at lower left and a hunting dog on the right.

Hans von Aachen: Venus and Adonis

Entry of the Theotokos: Joachim and Anna bring the young Mary to Zacharias before a three-domed temple, as an angel feeds her

The Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple: a fourteenth-century icon from the Northern Dvina

Men in breeches and red sashes dance with their hands on one another’s shoulders, with women and musicians in the background.

The Kavontoritikos of Southern Euboea: The Tsambouna and the Whistled Speech of Antia

Black-and-white photograph of riders on horseback amid a crowd, with onlookers on the wooden balcony of a building.

The Zygies of Naoussa: Zournas, Daouli and Patinades in the Genitsaroi and Boules

Pair of scrolls by Kōno Bairei: the Buddha's parinirvana on the left, Uzume dancing before Amaterasu's cave on the right.

Amaterasu and the Heavenly Rock Cave: The Myth of the Sun’s Return

Marble relief of the Apotheosis of Homer, inspired by the Homeric epics, with Zeus, the Muses and the enthroned poet

The Homeric Epics: The Iliad, the Odyssey and the Question of Their Composition

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